Word: goats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young architect...
...Manhattan, rattled the bones of the Protestant Episcopal family skeleton last week. All the famed trustees* of the cathedral held their backs to the door and feigned guileless smiles, but the hollow knock of femur and tibia was audible to many observers, and while the skeleton clanked, a lone goat roamed disconsolately out of the cathedral close into the wide, wide world, and that was young Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin, who, until last week, was assistant to the cathedral's dean and instructor in the choir school...
...only the taxes but the students' board and tuition were paid in kind--in corn and wheat, cloth and shoes, cows, and other animals including "a goat of the Watertown rate which died," so that the College steward must have conducted a wholesale store...
...late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat...
Leather. Many U. S. makers of shoes, purses, gloves, buy their high grade goat and kid skins from Martin Zimmer Lederwerke, A. G., of Frankfort-am-Main, Ger many, and their reptile skins from Alpina Ltd. of Paris and Berne. The two tanning firms are now consolidated...